Sean Solomon
The World Is Not Good Enough
70--80点相当
ロサンゼルスのローファイ・シーンから登場した、
サンフェルナンド・バレー育ちのミュージシャン、アニメーターであり、
かつてサブ・ポップ所属のMoaningのリード・ミュージシャンだった
Sean Solomon
ssuing from LA’s lo-fi scene, the San Fernando Valley-raised musician, animator and erstwhile lead of Sub Pop-rostered Moaning, interprets the genesis of his debut LP as a form of self-therapy - an act of off ramping from the world of cynical corporate pressures and interests, ultimately seeking refuge in “art in its purest form”, in Solomon’s own words. Having returned to animation as a primary creative outlet following his former band’s split, crafting videos for acts such as Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Run The Jewels and Odd Future, The World is Not Good Enough grew serendipitously out of a series of demos, finding form and purpose without any such forced intention.
There is an at once bucolic tenderness and world weariness wrapped up in its eight-track duration, optimism emanates from subjects spanning episodes of mental health decline and subsequent hospitalisation (“Black Hole”), placing personal struggles in the context of the collective human experience rather than centered solely on the self. Solomon's tentative acoustic patter and ambling, achingly volatile vocals neither mask nor subvert themes that, on paper, should emerge spikey or dour, but in practice synchronize in a delicately stitched life-affirming sum of its parts. “Black Hole” contends with the reality of mental health struggles in a stark but refreshingly open-minded stance that is the epitome of the record’s inquisitively self-accepting angle: “I have a mental disorder / Or maybe I’m just human”.
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